{"id":644772,"date":"2020-01-30T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=644772"},"modified":"2020-01-30T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T11:01:00","slug":"3d-printed-block-of-moondust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=644772","title":{"rendered":"3D-printed block of moondust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3D-printed_block_of_moondust_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"3D-printed block of moondust\" \/><br \/>\n\tImage: <\/p>\n<p>The hollow cell structure of this 1.5 tonne block, 3D printed from simulated lunar dust, let it combine strength with low weight, like bird bones.<\/p>\n<p>The building block is on show in the laboratory corridor of ESA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/ESTEC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ESTEC<\/a>\u00a0technical centre in the Netherlands, visited during public tours from neighbouring\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space-expo.nl\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Space Expo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Produced using a binding salt as \u2018ink\u2019, the structure was made during an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Building_a_lunar_base_with_3D_printing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">initial feasibility project on lunar 3D printing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ESA has subsequently investigated other types of lunar 3D printing, including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Printing_bricks_from_moondust_using_the_Sun_s_heat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">solar sintering<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinimages\/Images\/2018\/11\/3D-printed_ceramic_parts_made_from_lunar_regolith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ceramics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2020\/01\/3D-printed_block_of_moondust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">3D-printed block of moondust<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: The hollow cell structure of this 1.5 tonne block, 3D printed from simulated lunar dust, let it combine strength with low weight, like bird bones. The building block is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644773,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/644773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}